Quick Vacation Update Pt 2

The continued story...

I cleaned a couple of corals from Planaria by giving them a tab water bath. Dipping the corals 10 seconds in tab water with the same temperature as the aquarium should remove Planaria.

One of the corals that got a bath was the Klyxum Simplex, unfortunately he didn’t look good to begin with and didn’t get much better afterwards. Part of the coral ripped so I had multiple parts, I moved all that weren’t attached to the frag tank and the small part that remained was put back.

And also the Ricordea mushrooms got a bath, these looked much better afterwards.

And last I moved some corals around in the RSM, couple moved to the fragtank, couple are staying (for now).

I moved 1 rock with buttons and 3 rocks with starburst polyps to the fragtank.

The rock with pink buttons moved next to the brown ones on the left side of the aquarium.

The rock with brown buttons moved on top of the Green buttons, to give more different colour buttons in one place.

And I removed the rock with Encrusted Gorgonian that we bought long time ago, all the coral has moved onto the other rocks now, so this gives more room in the corner.

And finally a complete overview how it looks now.



Quick Vacation Update

Just a quick update before my vacation. On Saturday the 23^rd I bought a couple of fish for the 60liter aquarium, “unfortunately” my wife liked them very much and we put them in the RSM250.

So now we have 2 new inhabitants there, the Neon Dottyback and the Cleaner Common Wrasse.

Neon Dottyback

Cleaner Common Wrasse

That same day I also noticed a frag on the Kenya Tree in the RSM250, I removed the frag and placed it on a rock using a rubber band. After that I placed it in the 60 litre tank until it attaches.

On Thursday the 26^th I bought a couple of Reef Chromis at our regular aquarium store. Both of them show themselves often, much more then the small Gobie that is still in the crab tank somewhere. So now I have some fish and some movement during the daytime as well.

Wednesday I cleaned the 60 liter aquarium, I removed the rubber band from the Kenya Tree I put in 4 days ago and I also removed the rubber band holding the leather coral on crab rock. Both are attached to the rock now.

The day before the vacation we did a big cleanup on the RSM. I started with injecting some of the Majano Anemones, which where multiplied a lot. I think I got a big bunch of them, next time I will take on all that is left.

Next I went to investigate why all the buttons on the sand where doing so poorly, well…I found out. All the rocks with buttons on the bottom had bristleworms on them, some of them where pretty large as well. All where bright red with a part black on them. I started removing them one by one from each of the button rocks, and for the result.

To be continued...